Monday, April 28, 2008

Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age

There is nothing wrong with saving energy & reducing pollution, however, don't assume that you're changing the climate when you do so. Volcanoes put far more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than mankind, and our sun has more effect on Earth's temperature than greenhouse gasses.
FOXNews.com - Scientist: Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News:
"Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun.
He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.

'This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,' Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. 'If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.'"

If you're curious, a simple Google search can turn up thousands of arguments on all sides of the issue. We should continue to study our planet and learn how things work, but burning food for fuel probably isn't a good answer to any of our problems.

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